ANALYSIS & OPINION
Confidence tricks for the euro zone
The euro’s crisis of confidence operates at multiple levels. Businesses, bankers, citizens and politicians are losing faith in both the economy and the whole project. That creates multiple vicious spirals, centred on Spain and Italy. But there’s a way to escape the vortex.
How not to report on the poor and the wealthy
The media has not exactly covered itself in glory when reporting on money-related research of late.
What the Colorado shooting says about us
The Colorado movie massacre imposes on us once again the temptation to extrapolate lessons from a demented act of violence. But our attempts are likely to fail, just as those of previous generations have.
Can Citic avoid the investment bank buyer’s curse?
The Chinese securities firm is paying $1.3 bln for Credit Agricole’s CLSA. Avoiding another Dresdner/Wasserstein, Nomura/Lehman or Credit Suisse/DLJ would be hard for any bank - much less one controlled by Beijing. Arm’s length management alone is unlikely to make this deal different.
Can a real central bank save Europe?
There is one simple difference between all the European victims of financial crisis and the lucky countries that are given a free pass by investors, despite their even bigger deficits and worse banking crises. The countries with immunity control their own currencies and central banks.
It’s competitiveness, stupid
The most crucial question for American centrists, who are likely to decide this November’s elections, is whether Obama or Romney can reverse the dangerous signs of eroding U.S. competitiveness and shore up the beginnings of an economic resurgence.
America’s Republican extremists
Assertions about Muslim infiltrators and Congressional communists merit pondering about the current state of the Republican Party, a mainstay of American democracy for more than 150 years.MOST COMMENTED
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